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SONG: Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell: Dueling Banjos (Deliverance 1972): https://youtu.be/p8t8uqEf6_A POEM: Linda Hogan: The History of Red (excerpt): … A wildness / swam inside our mothers, desire through closed eyes, a new child / wearing the red, wet mask of birth, delivered into this land / already wounded, stolen and burned / beyond reckoning. […]
SONG: Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper: https://youtu.be/VdQY7BusJNU POEM: John Milton: On Time (excerpt): Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace; And glut thy self with what thy womb devours, Which is no more then what is false and […]
Texts for this week include Psalm 118 and Matthew 21, as well as “I am the way, the truth and the life” from Gospel of John. Questions to Consider: Questions raised up in commentary on Palm Sunday from Jan Richardson: Are we allowing ourselves to be swept along by circumstances, traveling our road by default? […]
I believe God loves the world through us—through you and me. — Mother Teresa The three grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.― George Washington Burnap The great struggle of … life is to take God’s name for us, to believe we are beloved and to […]
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity. — Mahatma Gandhi You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself. — Rumi When he returned home to France, [Lafayette] lived on his big estates and did very well. He was in the same social class as the rich […]
